Re: Custom Help File
- From: Claire <Claire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 06:02:01 -0700
The way I understood it is that if you left the HelpContextID at 0, F1 would
open to the main page of the Help File. Am I wrong about that?
"John Nurick" wrote:
> Hi Claire,
>
> As far as I know it's not enough to put the name and location of the
> help file in the HelpFile property of the object. You also have to set
> the HelpContextID property of each object to the value associated with
> the help topic you want to be displayed when the user selects that
> object and presses F1.
>
> The HelpContextID values are arbitrary numbers which you map to the
> relevant help topics in the [MAP] section of the help project (hpj)
> file, e.g.
>
> [MAP]
> IDH_frmMainForm=1001
> IDH_frmContacts=1002
>
> The topic IDs here are the ones you assigned using # footnotes in the
> RTF file (I've never used Shalom Help, but assume it creates an RTF file
> and uses the Windows help compiler to compile it).
>
> There's lots of useful information on both WinHelp and HTML Help at
> www.helpmaster.com .
>
>
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 10:38:08 -0700, Claire
> <Claire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >I've asked so many questions of you kind people, but if I can get this to
> >work, my project is done!
> >
> >I created a custom help file with the use of Shalom Help which was
> >recommended on this site. I thought that would be the hard part, but with
> >Shalom Help it was quite simple. I now have two files - one .cnt and one .hlp
> >- for the life of me I cannot get it to work in Access (2003). From
> >everything I read, it should be a simple matter of entering the path in the
> >HelpFile property of each file/report. I have tried the complete path alone,
> >with and without "s, with and without =, the title only (since it's in the
> >same file as the program), I have considered the possibility that it's a
> >function that does not work with the standard Access program - but then why
> >is the property there? I have even considered re-doing the whole Help File
> >using Html Workshop. Does anyone know what in the world I'm doing wrong?!
> >
> >Please help!
>
> --
> John Nurick [Microsoft Access MVP]
>
> Please respond in the newgroup and not by email.
>
.
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